{"id":712496,"date":"2022-06-22T18:23:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/22\/false-narrative-campaigners-say-british-bill-of-rights-could-undermine-free-speech"},"modified":"2022-06-22T18:23:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:23:50","slug":"false-narrative-campaigners-say-british-bill-of-rights-could-undermine-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2022\/06\/22\/false-narrative-campaigners-say-british-bill-of-rights-could-undermine-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018False narrative\u2019: campaigners say British bill of rights could undermine free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Organisations including Index on Censorship condemn government\u2019s claim a bill would boost freedom of expression<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/freedom-of-speech\">Free speech<\/a> campaigners have condemned the UK government\u2019s boast that the planned <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/law\/2022\/jun\/21\/what-would-a-british-bill-of-rights-look-like\">British bill of rights<\/a> will boost freedom of expression, claiming that it will actually undermine it.<\/p><p>The bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/bills.parliament.uk\/bills\/3227\/publications\">published on Wednesday<\/a>, says in clause 4 that on matters of free speech \u201ca court must give great weight to the importance of protecting the right\u201d.<\/p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/22\/false-narrative-campaigners-say-british-bill-of-rights-could-undermine-free-speech\">Continue reading...<\/a>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/jun\/22\/false-narrative-campaigners-say-british-bill-of-rights-could-undermine-free-speech\">Human rights | The Guardian<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisations including Index on Censorship condemn government\u2019s claim a bill would boost freedom of expressionFree speech campaigners have condemned the UK government\u2019s boast that the planned British bill of rights will boost freedom of expression, cl&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6227,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1727,1311,6,10477,640,14,39732,1314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6227"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712496"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":712497,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712496\/revisions\/712497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}